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Obituaries

Funeral Services were held Friday, Nov. 2, at the Family Worship Center in Carrollton with the Rev. Joe Kindoll officiating. Burial was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Carrollton. Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home 809 Highland Ave. in Carrollton was entrusted with the arrangements.

Mary Gladys Simmons Smith, 88, Bedford, died Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, at Carroll County Memorial Hospital. Mary was born in Trimble County to the late Walter Simmons and Maude Kidwell Simmons on May 13, 1924.

Survivors include two sons, Brian Smith, Don Smith, both of Bedford; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, her loving husband Andrew, three brothers and two sisters.

Melessa Ann Jackson Chisholm, 45, of Carrollton, died Wednesday, October 10, 2012, at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville.

Funeral Services were held Tuesday, Oct.16, at the Family Worship Center with the Rev. Jimmy Stewart officiating. Burial was in the English Cemetery in Carrollton. Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home, 809 Highland Ave. in Carrollton was entrusted with the arrangements.

Elsie Noah Berressem, 71, of Memphis, TN, died Oct. 5, 2012. She was born on Nov. 28, 1940.

She was preceded in death by her son, Jack Dennerle Berressem, Jr., her mother, father and sister.

She is survived by her husband Jack; children, Albert Berressem and Carrie Perry; two grandchildren, and a brother Charles Kenneth Noah of Arvada, CO. Services will be at 1 pm Wednesday, October 10th at Union Ave. Baptist Church, Memphis. Burial to follow at Memphis Memory Gardens.